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"speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. On the first Question, as Members know, we are on a Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), a system which started way back in 2017. The first cohort of learners transited to Junior School in February 2023 with a total of 1,146,070 learners, against an enrolment of 1.2 million in Grade Six. This translates to a 95 per cent transition rate. The group has now transited to Grade Eight. This year, we have a 97 per cent transition rate with 1,207,355 learners having reported out of the 1,245,066. The first cohort of the CBC system will join the senior school in January 2026. We are in the process of going into three pathways. As part of the implementation, in order to operationalise it, we developed and came up with a capitation figure of Ksh15,042 per learner per year for Junior Secondary School. We have given a breakdown as follows: Ksh1,200 per learner is for textbooks; Ksh450 for laboratory materials; Ksh1,000 for materials for practicals and Ksh2,550 for stationery. This year, a total of Ksh4.74 billion has been disbursed to schools for free primary education for Term One and Ksh7.6 billion as capitation for Junior Secondary Schools. The Ministry has also spent a total of Ksh3,164,365,856 in the last financial year on course books. This is part of what we are doing to make sure that the CBC system works, by providing books across the country, which have been distributed and the learner-to-textbook ratio as of now is 1:1. On teachers, as a requirement for teaching and learning to go on, we have done training and re-tooling of teachers on the new pedagogical skills to enable teachers to effectively disseminate knowledge to the learners. To date, a total of 281,980 teachers comprising 229,292 primary school teachers and 52,688 Junior School teachers have been re- tooled. On employment of additional teachers to effectively teach at this particular level, we have employed 56,000 teachers and progressively this particular financial year, we expect to recruit another additional 20,000 teachers. The teachers are continuously being re-tooled in various learning areas in both primary and Junior Secondary Schools to enable smooth implementation of the primary and Junior Secondary School curriculum delivery. Part of the other measures to make this particular program work is the internship program which, as I indicated earlier, we have so that we can have adequate teachers in our schools. One of the other aspects that we have had to deal with is the learning areas for primary and Junior Secondary Schools. Parents and Kenyans complained that the areas in the curriculum were too many and that there were overloads and overlaps. Therefore, the Kenya The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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